Published in 1992, A Bone to Pick is the second of eight in the Aurora Teagarden

Aurora Teagarden

Aurora Teagarden is a fictional character created by author Charlaine Harris, in a series of eight Crime novels written from 1990 to 2003.In the first book of the series, twenty-eight-year-old Aurora Teagarden is a professional librarian and belongs to the Real Murders club, a group of 12...

 mysteries by Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children...

, best known for her Sookie Stackhouse

Sookie Stackhouse

Sookie Stackhouse is the fictional protagonist and narrating voice of Charlaine Harris' The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the television adaptation, HBO's True Blood.-Biography:...

 mysteries on which the popular HBO television show "True Blood

True Blood

True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...

" is based.

Having inherited a large estate from a member of the now defunct Real Murders Club, Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, the 4'11" librarian

Librarian

A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information services or materials for those with information needs...

, is mystified by a mere acquaintance's gift of money, jewelry, and a two bedroom house with a skull

Skull

The skull is a bony structure in the head of many animals that supports the structures of the face and forms a cavity for the brain.The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible. A skull without a mandible is only a cranium. Animals that have skulls are called craniates...

 in the window seat. Did the old lady kill someone and leave Roe to solve the mystery or was she being framed? Roe must figure it all out before her cheating ex-boyfriend Arthur, the police detective, and her new love interest Aubrey, the episcopal priest

Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...

, figure out what she's up too.